"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
@strypey@pluralistic@PC_Fluesterer@phlogiston
Speaking of #copyright, and how it might be used for good, over the past 3 years (to the month) we've been working on a fediverse icon in collaboartion with random fedizens. We always added on the #copyleft license how the design is AGPLv3 for AGPLv3 softwares that comprise the fediverse. Meaning it cannot be used to link to FalseBook Threa(t)s and their proprietary garbage.
If fedizens use it, it'll nip FBook's #extinguish op in the bud..
@vncntx At the beginning, nothing. Once #Meta/Facebook/Instagram’s #Project92 is the largest instance, they’ll start making “improvements” to the protocol. Other instances will have to implement them to federate. At that point, they’ll be running the show.
(If we let them. And by “we”, I mean the largest instances. mastodon.social and the other largest instances could nip this in the bud now if they wanted to. But I hear they’re out signing NDAs…)